Often inspired by HUMTANK – a think tank and collaborative initiative involving a dozen Swedish universities – the forum builds network and works to create favourable conditions for both interdisciplinary research as well as humanities research on its own terms. LiU Humanities strives to strengthen the position of humanities research and teaching in a broad sense, both within Linköping University and beyond.
As a forum for collaboration and the dissemination of research and teaching in the humanities, LiU Humanities aims to initiate and promote researcher meetings, exhibitions, public lectures, and debates, while also supporting existing structures and initiatives.
LiU Humanities supports humanities research while facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration. We believe that the humanities play an important role not only in advancing knowledge within their own disciplines, but also in contributing to the understanding of complex societal, cultural, technological, and environmental challenges.
Examples of such engagement can be found in areas such as Digital Humanities, Medical Humanities, Environmental Humanities, Decolonial Humanities, and Public Humanities. These are not separate from the humanities; rather, they demonstrate the many ways in which humanistic research can interact with and enrich other fields of inquiry.
